Morris tribune., 1887-06-22

1uc faE1OuS COIul11iGtCCo ho'AA5 -
charge the preparations for thu
Fourth of July celebration met at thu
Engine house last Thursday evening
The funds Were apportioned among
the various committees, as best they
could be. Much interest was mani
tested and preparations are being
rapidly completed. The celebration
is sure to be one of the most success
full ever witnessed in this vicinity.
The Manitoba seldom corrects mis-
takes. There are many instances oil
errors and over-charges by which
patrons have been compelled to pay
more for freight than even the out
rageously high tariff rates demand
but it is seldom that any of the money
wrongfully collected is ever returned.
When the Manitoba once gets It's
fangs upon the money of its victims
it seems to be almost useless for any
one to protest.
There are so many sports planned
for the Fourth of July celebration III
Morris that there will be no time to
be taken up with eulogies on the
American eagle and the usual ora
torical efforts will be dispensed with.
The TRIBUNE therefore advises each
one of its many readers to rise early on
the morning of the 1I1th anniversary
of the Nation's birthday, read the
of independence through
carefully before breakfast and then
come to Morris and indulge i'll the
fun for the rest of the day.
We regret to state that Hon. IL. A.
Costello has made arrangements to
move to Duluth with his family. Mr..
Costello was one of the first settlers
in Graceville and has been largely
instrumental in bringing the town
from an obscure hamlet to u promls-
ing village. The family has been
the light of Graceville society and
will leave a place not likely to be
filled in many year. Their host OF
friends for miles around will join
in rendering the best of wish
es for their welfare in their new home.
-Graceyile Transcript.
The habit of the canary to noisily
Join in any conversation that. may
be going on in the family circle is q
reason why many refrain from keep
ing this cheerful little bird as pet.
A naturalist has discovered a way OF
the difficulty. He says:
1--WE put in our canary birds cage
every day little mirror, as large as
the palm of the hand, taking care
that neither sun nor light shall dazzle
him, and he will look at himself for
hours together with as much happl-
ness as any young gentlemen you
ever saw. When we want him to
stop singing we have only to give
HIM the mirror"
At the commencement exercises of
Hamline University last week Thurs
day, MissILaura Knott graduated with
high honors, second to none in the
class. She again received the $50
prize for highest scholarship IN her
class and $25 prize for the best essays.
She received q number OF presents,
among them being set of Ruskin's
works, and flowers in abundance for
her excellent and well rendered
essay "The Ethics of George Elliott's
Works." She goes from Hamline
with the best wishes of faculty and
school as we'll as of many warm,
personal acquaintance for her future
welfare and success in her chosen
calling. We undergtand she has ac-
cepted position in the Sank Center
schools for the coming year.-Monte-
videO Leader.
DC. Smith, one of the we'll known,
highly esteemed and influential far
mers of the county, died last Monday
morning and was buried yesterday
afternoon. He has been sufferer
for over @ year with cancer and the
end was not unexpected to those who
have known of his condition. Mr..
Smith was born in New York in 1910.
He served faithfully for three years
in the war of the Rebellion after
which he located in Goodhue county
Here he met and married
Miss Sarah Libby who survives him.
he lived four years in
Nebraska and two years in California
since which time his home has been
in this county. He was member of
G.. A. J. Overton post q. A. r. which
had charge of the funeral
This entire community will feel the
loss of Mr.. Smith and unites IN ex-
tending sincerest sympathy to his
bereaved and mourning family.
Mans insignificance is thus defined
by the Boston Journal OF Commerce:
when a mans mind be-
comes really engaged-say like that
of Baron Humboldt-andh he is able
to place in focus more and more of
the cosmos of which he forms part,
the things he at the outset of his life
regards as the largest get smaller and
till at last that first immense
and overwhelmingly important thing
becomes so insignificant that
it is only through process of mental
he can discern his little
float swim or wiggle across the field
of view. How big is Il man anyway?
Well, he is smaller til an an elephent,
and an elephant is smaller than a
mountain, and a mountain is smaller
than the world, and the world is a
mustard seed compared wi tn the
sun, and the sun itself IS mere mote
in the dust cloud Of spheres that
stretches out through the universe